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EarthTalk – What are regional climate models and why are they needed?

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The hazards of living on the right side of a time zone border

What happens when a raindrop hits a puddle?

When is dead really dead? Study on pig brains reinforces that death is a vast gray area

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot: A 300-year-old cyclone persists but is shrinking

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Ancient DNA is a powerful tool for studying the past – when archaeologists and geneticists work together

Old stone walls record the changing location of magnetic north

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Together, more heat and more carbon dioxide may not alter quantity or nutritional quality of crops

You can't control what you can't find: Detecting invasive species while they're still scarce

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